
In developing its
activities, EUROPARC Consulting is building upon the achievements of its
parent organisation the EUROPARC Federation, including for example:
- A
successful record of managing complex projects, such as EU-funded programmes
of technical assistance, training and exchange for protected areas across
Europe and overseas. Key examples include:
EUROPARC
Expertise Exchange, a major four-year project supporting protected
areas in Central and Eastern Europe. Over 2000 people from protected
areas and nature conservation organisations across the region benefited
directly from participation in the project activities.
Partnership
& Exchange Programme, a five-year project which strengthened
local capacities to manage protected areas in 12 countries of Asia and
Latin America through working partnerships and technical cooperation
with European protected areas.
- running
international workshops and training seminars on a broad range of protected
area management issues and themes, such as management planning, visitor
management, monitoring in protected areas, environmental education,
sustainable tourism, Natura 2000, or public relations for protected
areas (e.g. the Leadership
Programme).
- Drawing
upon teams of international experts to produce guidelines and management
tools for protected areas’ work in key topic areas. A significant
example is the highly successful report “Loving Them to Death
– Sustainable Tourism in Europe’s Nature and National Parks”
(see EUROPARC Publications
List).
Building
on this broad experience, EUROPARC Consulting has proceeded to implement
a range of assignments since its foundation in 2001: examples are presented
under Recent Assignments. |